Plato, Theaetetus, section 190d

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[190d] anything of that sort.

Theaetetus
Well, Socrates, I do give it up; and I agree with you in what you say.

Socrates
You agree, therefore, that he who holds an opinion of both things cannot hold the opinion that one is the other.

Theaetetus
So it seems.

Socrates
But surely he who holds an opinion of one only, and not of the other at all, will never hold the opinion that one is the other.

Theaetetus
You are right; for he would be forced to apprehend also that of which he holds no opinion.

Socrates
Then neither he who holds opinion of both nor he who holds it of one can hold the opinion that a thing is something else.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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